Word: twins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Minnesota: Ike is surprisingly strong in the cities, relatively weak on the farms. But as evidenced during his triumphal Twin Cities appearance last fort night, Ike is the probable winner...
...this deadly contest of wills, 51-year-old Communist Gomulka brought the twin advantages of an iron nerve and an unpleasantly intimate knowledge of Moscow's methods. This was Gomulka's second appearance as first secretary of the Polish party; his first tour wound up in his imprisonment in 1951 on charges of Titoism. And he had risen to party leadership in the first place largely because he was one of the few prewar Polish Communists of any stature available when Poland fell under the domination of the Red army at the end of World War II. This...
...British Raj and the missionary sahibs from the Christian West, Hinduism seemed a creed outworn, soon destined to disappear. But it was just this twin invasion of commerce and Christianity, say two eminent Indian leaders, that has stirred Hinduism to new life...
Equal Pay. The outburst came over the twin pipelines that the British-managed (and British-French-Dutch-U.S.-owned) I.P.C. operates between its Iraq fields and Lebanon's Mediterranean port of Tripoli. The Lebanese in 1944 gave renewed approval to an old agreement to 1) let I.P.C. run its pipes through their country, 2) exempt the company from taxation, 3) submit all disputes to arbitration. In 1947, I.P.C. began paying transit fees to Syria and Lebanon, through which its pipelines ran. Though the lines traversed Syria for 263 miles, Lebanon for only 20, I.P.C. paid each the same...
Calm and brainy, Bell lost no time striking out into the fields he liked best-research and development. His first fighter plane in 1937 was a flying machine-gun nest ; it had twin engines, a 300-m.p.h. top speed, bristled with two 37-mm. cannon, four .50-cal. machine guns. No sooner was it aloft than Bell was busy with a radical single-engined fighter, the P-39. It was the first single-engined U.S. fighter with tricycle landing gear, had a 37-mm. cannon firing through the hollow prop hub. Expanding from 100 workers to 55,000 at five...